PM Project Postmortem Survey

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Project Team Post-mortem Survey

Project Name/Phase:

Duration on Project:

Survey Date:

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SECTION 1: General Project Issues / Communication

How clearly defined

were the objectives for

this project?

How clearly defined

were the objectives for

your work?

How clear were you

on your role in the

project?

How adequatelyinvolved did you feel

in project decisions?

If not, what decisions did you feel excluded from?

How efficient and

effective were project

team meetings?

What would you change?

How efficient and

effective were

technical meetings?What would you change?

Were Issues

adequately logged,

followed-up, and

managed?

What Issues could have been handled better?

How well do you feel

the executives

supported this project?


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How adequate has

participation from the

business functional

side staff been?What were the problems encountered in the project-to-business functional side staff

relationship, why, and how could they be fixed? What cross-functional participation, if

any, was lacking?

Do you feel

appreciated,

recognized and

rewarded for your

efforts?

What (if anything) has been lacking?

To what degree do youfeel the entire team

was committed to the

project schedule?

What if any issues are there?

To what degree were

any "people issues" in

the way?

What Issues?

What communication, organization and structural problems in general did you

encounter? How could we have done better in these areas?

SECTION 2: Schedule and Estimation Issues

Which of the following estimation issues did you personally have and what was its

impact:

I was diverted to work on another project.

If so:

Name of project:

Amount of time diverted for:

Impact on your project work:

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I overestimated the amount of time I would have each week to work on this project.

If so:

The other work that interfered was:

The amount of time per week it took up was:

Impact: Calendar schedule slip of __days __weeks __ months

My initial schedule did not include some core work under my responsibility (e.g.

design, construction, etc.) that I subsequently realized I had to do.

If so:

Describe briefly:

Impact Additional hours of work:

My initial schedule did not take into account certain project "other" work, such as

attending other people's design reviews, etc.

If so:

Describe:

Impact: Calendar schedule slip of __days __weeks __ months



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My estimates for particular tasks were not accurate.

If so:

Describe the type of task, how "off" the estimate was (days, weeks):

Why was it difficult to estimate?

What would help get better estimates next time?

I unexpectedly had to re-do some work.

If so:

Describe:

Impact on your schedule:

What could have helped prevent the problem?

Knowing what you know now, how would you do the scheduling/estimating process

differently next time to avoid any problems noted above?



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SECTION 3: Design, Implementation, and Test Processes

How effective was our

architecture/systemdesign process in each

phase?

Comments:

How effective were

our functional specs?

Comments:

How effective wereour design (or

implementation)

specs?

Comments:

How effective were

our design reviews?

Comments:

How effective wereour code reviews?

Comments:

How well were

interfaces defined?

Comments:

How well were design

and interface decisionsdocumented?

Comments:

How effective has

interaction/cooperation

between technical

"sub-teams" (i.e. teams

within or supporting

our team) been?

Comments:



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How useful was your

unit testing?

Comments:

Did you take unit testing into account in your schedule?

How smooth do you

feel Integration has

been?

Comments (why or why not?):

How comprehensive

was integrationtesting, especially to

allow QA testing to

get off to a good start?

Comments:

How well is the build

process working?

Comments:

To what degree didyou have the tools you

needed for testing?

Comments:

To what degree did

you receive the

training you needed

for this assignment?

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SECTION 4: Perceived Project Lifecycle/Development/Process Issues

1. Did our chosen development process hamper this project? If so, how?



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2. What would you change about our chosen development process?

3. What would you like to better understand or see better documented about how to use

this, or some other chosen process, on this type of project?

SECTION 5: Closing

1. What were up to five main causes for schedule slips, and how could we avoid those

causes in the future?

2. Was the project significantly delayed/ hampered by outside dependencies (outside to

the project that is)? Which ones? How to solve?

3. What (or who) were the main bottlenecks on the process?

4. What were the main sources of frustration in the project?

5. If we had to do it all over, what is the one thing that you would change (related to

process, not to technical solution)?



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6. For the next project, how/ what could we improve on the way project was run?

Feel free to add any other comments here. Be polite!

Thanks very much for all your comments!


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